US Sen. Blackburn has $9.2M for reelection bid
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks during the Republican National Convention July 15 in Milwaukee. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP file)
The specter of 85,000 new Internal Revenue Service employees hired specifically to go after taxpayers surfaced again Monday, July 16, as U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., gave her second speech of the day to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
“President Trump will keep his promises just like he did the first time,” Blackburn told a cheering crowd during her Monday, July 15, prime-time speech.
Also Monday, Blackburn reported $9.2 million in her reelection war chest with $3.9 million raised by her campaign along with the Blackburn Tennessee Victory Fund political-action committee in the second quarter.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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